Controller Yvette Starbuck mentions $7,500 in Land Preservation Committee budget for next year and request for $13,050
Dignan mentions the 50% increase in LPC budget that showed up when drafting the budget. Wants more time to consider.
Otto asks what another survey will answer that previous surveys have not.
Zelenock says the survey will answer the question of land preservation's importance to residents and more importantly, if residents are willing to pay for it.
Whether it's a random sample or complete sample is the UofM professional surveyer's choice.
Chick: "Surveys typically in Northfield Township are used to weaponize."
Chick suggests zeroing out the proposed LPC $5000 expense and pushing the question onto a ballot, the premise being that a land preservation millage vote is a defacto survey.
Muchow: dislikes LPC's "return to the well" to double their budget
Brian, Timbercrest lived here 6 years decried "fear of growth, fear of change," followed by effortlessly hurdling the cognitive-dissonance divide to say "we all moved here for the green space"
Treasurer Zelenock Re development: "It will define us forever." Re the incessant attacks and butt ignorant brickbats hurled so casually against the LPC, she speaks on behalf of volunteers who are not as professionally thick skinned.
